Wednesday, September 3, 2025

The Wayward Bus: A review of Steinbeck's novel

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---        John Steinbeck's post World War 2 novel The Wayward Bus is a consistent masterpiece. The plot, which concerns travelers tryi...
Friday, August 15, 2025

Victor Serge: The First Neo-Conservative? Reviewing The Case of Comrade Tulayev

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  ESSAY/Review BY DOUG GIBSON.  NOTE: Recently, I discovered on the Internet archived reviews (at a Geocities site!!) that I had published ...
Friday, January 24, 2025

Remembering Bill Stevenson, Utah Republican

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  (I wrote this tribute to former Utah Republican Party chairman Bill Stevenson shortly after his death in May of 2010. It was published on ...
Sunday, November 6, 2022

What's the big issue in the 2022 midterm elections?

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-- I have not posted on this blog for almost two years. I was going to resume with a long take on the midterms on Tuesday. But I realized I ...
Saturday, December 26, 2020

Just what in Hades is President Trump doing with his stimulus tantrum?

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--- Column by Doug Gibson   Just what in the hell is President Donald Trump (seen above) doing with his after-the-fact tantrum/demand that t...
Saturday, November 14, 2020

‘Mortality’ is an appropriate epitaph to Christopher Hitchens’ life of writing

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  ( Saved this piece from Google's Wayback today. ) “ Mortality ,” by the late Christopher Hitchens, is a slim volume that serves as an ...
Sunday, August 9, 2020

Mr. Jones is a gut-punch of a film that reminds us of evil, and its unlikely cheerleaders

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Review by Doug Gibson I've watched the film "Mr. Jones" several times the past few days. Each viewing is a stronger pun...